Sara Lee News

Since my last update, nearly three months ago, the Basic Food Fund, or "BFF," has risen 6.4% from $182.93 to $194.66 versus an 8.4% increase in the Dow.

Despite an impressive market rally that has major indexes up around 65% off the March 9 lows, there are still a number of blue-chip stocks delivering handsome dividend yields.

South Carolina is reporting fewer swine flu cases, but more deaths from the disease.

Construction Crunch: Housing starts drop in October. Chocolate Drop: Hershey group unwraps Cadbury offer.

Officials with Sara Lee Corp. says 200 workers in South Carolina will lose their jobs when the company closes its bread factory in Greenville.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:12 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:12 p.m. Downers Grove, Illinois-based Sara Lee Corp.

Sara Lee Corp. in fiscal 2009 donated equivalent of 1.8 million meals to Feeding America.

Household products giant S.C. Johnson & Son is looking to grow via the acquisition of Sara Lee Corp.

Sara Lee Corp. today announced that in fiscal 2009 the company donated the equivalent of 1.8 million meals to Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity.

Nov. 17, 2009 5:20 p.m. S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. of Racine may be eyeing Sara Lee Corp.'s air-freshener business, according to a published report Tuesday.

"The Rachael Ray Show" selected Your Father's Kitchen to be the recipient of its 2009 Thanksgiving community service project that included facility upgrades and a year's stock of food courtesy of the Sara Lee Corporation , the story stated.

Hillshire Farm launches a lower fat version of everyone's favorite cocktail link, just in time for party season CORRECTION...by Sara Lee DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.-- --The third paragraph has been corrected to read: "Now more than ever, consumers are looking for simple ways to make small changes in their diets without making big sacrifices on taste," said ...

The Walt Disney Co. is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings for the three months through September on Thursday.

John H. Bryan, a former chief executive of the Sara Lee Corporation, owns an estate near Chicago that looks like a museum of early 1900s design but is not, at least not yet.

Hanesbrands Inc. has renewed a pivotal production contract with Unifi Inc., according to a regulatory filing.

Sara Lee Corp. said Tuesday it has appointed Anne Teague as chief information officer, effective immediately.

Farmer Bros. Co. today reported unaudited results for its first fiscal quarter ended Sept.

Sara Lee Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!sle /quotes/nls/sle said Thursday that first-quarter earnings were $284 million, or 41 cents a share, compared to $230 million, or 32 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.

Sara Lee posted a 23 percent jump in its fiscal first quarter profit today. Earnings totaled $284 million, or 41 cents per share, as compared to $230 million, or 32 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.

Sara Lee Corp. said Thursday that first-quarter earnings were $284 million, or 41 cents a share, compared to $230 million, or 32 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.